20/03/2025
New album release from Seraphim Six Productions!
Eternal Mystery – Hymns for the Feast of the Annunciation.
Available for instant audio download or CD preorder at www.seraphim6.com
The album includes 40 tracks featuring chant melodies from the Kievan, Russo-Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Byzantine traditions in settings by David Anderson, Vladimir Morosan, Peter Drobac, Frederick Karam and Anne Schoepp. It begins with the lovely Troparion for the Feast by Nazo Zakkak, and then in the Matins Canon, we hear the entire conversation between the Archangel and the Theotokos, with each ode followed by the soaring Katavasia of the Thetokos by Kurt Sander. Other compositions are two new settings of the Magnification by Anne Schoepp, (a two-part and a four-part setting), and a long-time favorite, the Greek melody for To You our Queen beautifully harmonized by Frederick Karam. Near the end, the hauntingly beautiful Serbian melody for The Lord has Chosen Zion by Peter Drobac develops into a full harmonization Anne Schoepp for the communion hymn.
Scroll down for a full track list, and see more track information at our www.seraphim6.com
The Seraphim Six Chorale is composed of singers from St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, CA.
Directed by Anne Schoepp.
1 Today is the Beginning
Nazo Zakkak (Troparion)
2 Gabriel Came
Kievan (Vespers Stichera)
3 Gabriel the Archangel
Kievan (Vespers Doxasticon)
4 In the Sixth Month
Bulgarian (Litya)
5 Today There Come Glad Tidings
Kievan (Aposticha Doxasticon)
6 Today is the Beginning
Carpatho-Russian (Troparion)
7 God is the Lord &
Today is the Beginning
Serbian - Peter Drobac (Troparion)
8 The Mighty Captain
Bulgarian - Anne Schoepp
(Sessional)
9 Today All Creation - Byzantine
Anne Schoepp (Sessional)
10 With the Voice of the Archangel #1
Anne Schoepp (Magnification)
11 I Shall Open My Mouth
Kievan - Canon Ode 1
12 I Shall Open My Mouth
Kurt Sander - Katavasia Ode 1
13 O Mother of God
Kievan (Canon Ode 3)
14 O Mother of God
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 3)
15 The Word of God
Russo-Greek (Sessional)
16 He Who Sits in Glory
Kievan (Canon Ode 4)
17 He Who Sits in Glory
Kurt Sander (Katavasia)
18 The Whole World
Kievan (Canon Ode 5)
19 The Whole World
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 5)
20 Prefiguring Your Three-Day Burial
Kievan (Canon Ode 6)
21 As We Celebrate
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 6)
22 O Victorious Leader
Pavel Chesnokov (Kontakion)
23 Hail, for Joy Shall Shine Forth
(Akathist - Oikos)
24 The Holy Youths
Kievan (Canon Ode 7)
25 The Holy Youths
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 7)
26 The Offspring of the Theotokos
Kievan (Canon Ode 8)
27 The Offspring of the Theotokos
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 8)
28 Announce Glad Tidings
Znamenny & Kievan (Canon Ode 9)
29 Let Every Mortal
Kurt Sander (Katavasia Ode 9)
30 The Captain of the Angelic Hosts
Bulgarian - Vladimir Morosan
(Exaposteilarion)
31 Gabriel Flew Down
Kievan (Praises)
32 Today is Revealed
Kievan (Praises Doxasticon)
33 Through the Prayers
Znamenny (Frist Antiphon)
34 O Son of God
Znamenny (Second Antiphon)
35 Today is the Beginning
Byzantine - Anne Schoepp
(Troparion)
36 To You, Our Queen
Greek - Frederick Karam
(Kontakion)
37 Announce Glad Tidings
Znamenny & Kievan (Canon Ode 9)
38 The Lord has Chosen Zion
Serbian - Peter Drobac,
arr. Anne Schoepp
(Communion Hymn)
39 With the Voice of the Archangel #2
Anne Schoepp (Magnification)
40 Awed by the Beauty
Byzantine - arr. Anne Schoepp
(Akathist)
